A 22-year-old Grade 11 student in Cotabato was shot dead inside his classroom by still unidentified assailants on Thursday, November 30.

In a report, Major Arvin John Cambang, chief of the Pikit municipal police, said the suspects were able to enter the premises of Dalandag High School in Barangay Ginatilan, Pikit town in North Cotabato province where they shot the student named John Rey Cabuga.

Students were able to witness the fatal shooting, thus prompting the officials of the Department of Education in Pikit to suspend indefinitely the classes in the Dalandag High School.

Authorities are looking into the victim's involvement as a member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) whose goal is to finish high school and get enlisted into the Philippine Army.